NSW WELCOMES RECORD NUMBER OF DOMESTIC OVERNIGHT HOLIDAY VISITORS

Tourism Research Australia's National Visitor Survey data for the year ending March 2023 shows NSW received its highest volume of domestic overnight holiday visitors (15.5 million), nights (51.5 million) and expenditure ($14.9 billion) on record.

NSW welcomed a total of 36 million domestic overnight visitors, who stayed 114.5 million nights and spent almost $30 billion. Their average stay was 3.2 nights, with an average spend per night of $261.

NSW recorded the highest absolute growth nationally in domestic overnight visitors, nights and expenditure in the year ending March 2023.

Among Australia's capital cities, Sydney recorded the highest increase in daytrip visitors and expenditure for the reporting period.

The key drivers of domestic overnight expenditure growth in NSW were in regional NSW (up $7.1 billion and 58.8 per cent), by intrastate visitors (up $6.8 billion and 57.7 per cent) and by holiday visitors (up $6.1 billion and 68.8 per cent).

The key drivers of daytrip expenditure growth were in regional NSW (up $2.5 billion and 72.6 per cent), by intrastate visitors (up $4.1 billion and 87.7 per cent) and by holiday visitors (up $2.5 billion and 94.1 per cent).
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